I would highly suggest to avoid these terrible emergency rooms unless you are at the point of death. They either don't care or aren't well equipped to handle anything outside of what they don't know. What they don't know they will double down STUPIDLY on psychological issues. "It's all in your head" is what they want to drill in to you.
These morons are going to kill you with their R*TARDED magical thinking. Things just magically happen and they piggyback on whatever they see on the medical record MASSIVELY clouding their own judgement. The doubling down on stupidity I witnessed was out of this world. Luckily, I am very skeptical of doctors opinions due to previous encounters and asked ChatGPT which massively helped me recover. I can never trust doctors unless I already have a very good idea on what is going on aka researched and matched symptoms.
I've self diagnosed my condition (allergies) with ChatGPT and treated it. WHICH MEANS ALL EMERG. DOCTORS involved (Shane F Ali, Ryan J McCorkle, Aneta Costa, Jeffery P Rhodes, Jacob A Jones) involved FAILED at their jobs horribly. They all gave up and just applied Ativan every fucking time. "Go to primary care doctor and cardiologist" because they don't know. How long does it take to go to a primary care doctor again? More than Ativan will last. Out of 5 of them only 2 sought it neccessary to prescribe Hydroxyzine, not that it helped especially. Maybe it would have helped if the direction was to take it every 6 hours rather than AS NEEDED.
The first visit to South Austin was f*king bad.
- Front desk person saying "he's fine". Surely, I was fine after they took me into that room alright enough that they finally thought to put me into a room. Sureeeee, I'm doing fine alright!
- Doctor hardly asked questions. Imagine how different it could've gone if the doctor had asked questions instead of assuming shit from what he saw. Imagine how he would've been able to come up with a list of potential causes had, again, he asked basic questions. A kicker question would have been, how long have you lived here and surely a number within the range of years for development of allergies would have clued him in right? Nah, just anxiety from some unspecified source. MAGIC! Somehow repeatedly said something I said only ONCE. Where does this sort of magical thinking and hallucination come from?
The first visit to Central Austin was done because I did not trust South Austin. Terrible.
- Doctor found sinusitis through a head ct scan. I felt like oh these guys are listening and now doing some scanning. They didn't do anything about it though. I can't even tell you if the sinusitis alone was the root cause and the doctor couldn't.
The second visit to Central Austin was stupidly bad enough that I just did not want to go there anymore. Clearly dysfunctional hospital system.
- The front desk person was so fucking out of it if you ask me like numb to whatever I was saying or feeling and paying attention more to the people who were arguing than what I was going through. Who the fuck does that?
- There was a long waiting delay, I sat on the floor, before I even got my bpm or blood pressure checked (CRAZY! 160sys/105dia)!
- A triage nurse or whatever, after putting me in a room, went in a LOOP asking me for urine despite me saying my body doesn't want to piss. Apparently, I have no idea when my body can and cannot piss. I should somehow get up and piss so they can do a drug test. Drug test that they don't even tell you they are going to do. Not once out of the two visits did these motherf*ckers say they were going to do a drug test despite me saying I don't do any of that shit and there were no indications of drugs. They didn't even print out the sheet showing they did a drug test, but they did of every other one, because they wanted to hide it. Who's paying for that drug test again? Did they get any authorization for that? What evidence they did they have to assert the need for that test? Nobody wanting to do drug tests isn't an EXCUSE for doing it without notifying a person of it.
- Doctor Aneta Costa? What doctor? Hardly even talked with me rather than over me. AH, that's right she looked at the "medical record" and made an assertion about what's going on! Rightttttt, 3rd time visiting as ER for the same issue so must be nothing! Just anxiety! Let me help you feel better by forcing words down your throat!
The two other times were at South Austin because EMT brought me there.
- Just bad doctors piling on and terribly bad notes. These guys weren't trying to solve any problem. Not even diagnosing. Just felt from the medical record, anxiety. I say, after these visits, that these guys are giving me anxiety and went off to ask ChatGPT a bunch of questions.
GPT may have programming to say these doctors are human and make mistakes, but I say they are massively incompetent. All logic failed these people and they relied solely on emotion to diagnose and noted their terrible diagnosis.
Their physician notes are so inaccurate. My god, wtf are these people hearing? They said I "self diagnosed" some shit my primary care doctor talked about and was exploring. HUH? It started from the first visit and see got WORSE the more I was brought in to there. I'm telling them shit and they are not including it in the notes. Just blatant malpractice if you ask me. Imagine needing to use that hospital in a legal case, holy shit you'd be fu*ked. Just so easily disproven that they are not credible witnesses. Maybe that shit is on purpose which is probably or should be fucking illegal.
"Defensive when mentioning anxiety" Oh boo hoo, I reject their anxiety label because I knew it was something else. Oh boo hoo, cry me a river. To mention that small little shit, but will not mention an excessive lb weigh loss over 1-2 weeks nor the brain fog or feeling of liquids moving in head/skull. Definitely couldn't be a problem, just doesn't support what they double down on. No mention of the other small things. Somehow they just KNOW outright that I am checking my apple watch excessively though! No mention of how long I've had this thing though! Somehow I've had this thing before the first episode though! Everything they wanted to include exaggerated and supported a psychological issue. A pack of F*CKING MORONS!
I should really really file a malpractice lawsuit against these pieces of shit. I really don't care how inadvertent it was. There was far too much INCOMPETENCE and lack of LOGIC for one to handle. They were making more anxious than the symptoms, I can definitely assert that.
How is it that I can go to a cardiologist and tell him the same things and his notes are more than 95% spot on. These notes you f*cking expect from a physician. I think that shows you who is competent and credible and who isn't. He also said it was a very low probability that the issue rooted from the circulatory system just like I asserted.
I went to a neurologist of my own accord since my brain was dizzy and foggy when standing who told me to go to an endocrinologist. ChatGPT gave me a list of doctors to go to for the symptoms I was feeling and a neurologist was one of them. I mean the heavy lifting ChatGPT was doing during this ordeal I feel like a primary care doctor should've been doing considering I paid ChatGPT nothing.
My primary care doctor Juan Davila may have been book smart, but he I would call more of a advanced medic than a doctor. He leaned too much into what the emergency room was saying, never discussed any of their notes and wanted to explore the psychological BS. He leaned in the WRONG direction. Only when I brought in a bunch of blood tests did he want to explore the Endocrinology route due to red flags shown I mean he ordered a test to see if it was a tumor. Had he recorded the symptoms as told to him in the office and gone through a list unbiased/unfiltered, we definitely would have reached the solution I did. Too bad that I had to use an AI model to do that. We were not on the same wavelength for sure, so I should've switched primary care doctors. I think some are far too attuned to common diagnosis (euhm ANXIETY) and doubling down on those.
Failure failure failure. The order of visits was, from what I remember, EMERG, PCP, EMERG EMERG, PCP, EMERG EMERG, PCP. Symptoms just kept popping up causing the craziest bpm and blood pressure I have ever seen my body do. My apple watch recorded fucking 180bpm which was the max and at that point I was going to faint, but good thing the couch was right there for me to fall in.
How is it not incompetence to have recorded 160-170 sys and 100-110 dia and they say it's not "LIFE THREATENING" Oh really, so I should faint first or get a heart attack and call the ER? How does that change anything again? Oh right, not enough money to be gained if you can avoid those. Ding ding ding!
I don't know if anxiety diagnosis is some medical trend these days, but it's f*cking stupid and you better believe any doctor that says this shit to me will be kicked to the curb like the ones who swear by the BMI metric. ALLERGIES can kill too and it goes to show you how biased thinking can really f*ck your thought pattern up and kill people. F*ck these guys. I only appreciate people who can keep level headed and open minded.
St Davids in Austin is a hospital never to go to UNLESS you are having some major common issue. Even then, South Austin's St. Davids is a toss up as they have worse statistics than the other one. If you can, ask the EMT to take you to Baylor Scott or somewhere else. Go to Westlake hospital.
If you go to emergency rooms or any physicians, I suggest looking at your doctors note to make sure the notes are correct and if not then AVOID that hospital like the plague. Emerg. rooms will double down on initial misdiagnosis and give up if you come in multiple times despite you being in a really bad condition.
I don't blame people who don't trust doctors and these experiences over a short time have definitely pushed me over the edge in never trusting them without any PROOF of their assertions. They think I rejected their anxiety label willy-nilly but they never had any PROOF to assert that there was any anxiety or "somatoform disorder" issue.
It's clear I encountered below average to average doctors (who are really just medics) who just piles on bad logic and assertions at mediocre for-profit hospitals. Maybe it's just the shit Texas health care system and inherent biases, I'm out of this shit hole very very soon anyway.
Fuck you St. Davids, you massive piles of shit!
If more people wrote about their experiences in these fucking terrible places, they'd be bankrupt to make way for better hospitals who most likely would have found the ROOT CAUSE of my issue.